Ukrainians volunteer and donate to help nation’s biggest children’s hospital recover from Russian attack
Volunteers clearing rubble at the Ohmatdyt children's hospital in central Kyiv, which was hit by a Russia n cruise missile last Monday. Four people died as a result of the attack and more than 20 were injured. Photograph: Daniel McLaughlinOne building is crushed, the facade of another is ripped open and between them lie mounds of rubble, twisted metal and a mangled car, but work at
Seán Moncrieff: I have no idea why a woman at a dinner party decided to tell this untrue story about me Godik escaped with only a nick to the forehead, but a kidney specialist on his team was killed and another doctor suffered a bad head injury. Oleksandr Mukhopad, head of the trauma centre at Kyiv's Ohmatdyt hospital. Photograph: Daniel McLaughlin
“People were drinking tea here a few moments before the strike. We heard some smaller explosions, probably air defences firing, and I told everyone to go to a corridor between two walls, which give more protection. We felt the blast wave and some debris fell on us but no one was badly injured.” About 20,000 children were treated each year as in-patients and more than 10,000 operations were performed annually at Ohmatdyt, whose name is an abbreviation of the Ukrainian for “Protection of motherhood and childhood”.
“Basically, all the doctors, surgeons, nurses and intensive care staff stayed in the hospital for about 70 days then without leaving.” Yuliya Dyomina, a Ukrainian who lives in Nashville, Tennessee, interrupted her summer holiday to volunteer at Ohmatdyt children's hospital in Kyiv after a deadly Russian missile attack last week. Photograph: Daniel McLaughlin
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